I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

Education is a system of imposed ignorance.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.

Investigate, educate and organize.

Evil being the root of mystery, pain is the root of knowledge.

A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.

Dare to think for yourself.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

God created man in His own image, says the Bible; philosophers reverse the process: they create God in theirs.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Learning never exhausts the mind.

Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.

Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.

I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of the peace.